Yesterday.............

.....................I helped my friend Janice on her stand at the Creative Stitches & Hobbycrafts at Westpoint Exeter. We arrived about 9.20, just enough time to sort ourselves.

9.30 am the doors opened.

County Needlecraft Stand

Bill and Janice have created some very different cross-stitch designs

I helped them stitch some of the above pieces,

I stitched the Egyptian Maze, Pink Elephants

and some of the Celtic designs

Beatitudes (top left bottom picture),

Benedicat, Pax Vobiscum and In Principio,

I also stitched some of the cottages show top left of the top picture,

they are local to Minehead and the surrounding areas

On the stand next to Janice was a really lovely lady called

Sue Hawkins

her work is so different and absolutely beautiful.

I have to admit I did spend quite a bit of money on her stall,

and probably will buy more pieces.

about 12.30

There were a few static displays, one buy this lady.

She did amazing pieces of work all by hand as the displays said many times.

Television has a lot to answer for!

I got great inspiration from the pieces and now

my poor little brain has gone into overdrive!

Hexagon patchwork, otherwise know as

"Grandmothers Garden"

This is a childs chair

"To Every Season........."

stitched and pulled thread work

the front piece is a Chestnut

This display was called

"The Button Box"

part of the Jurassic display

Greenhouse and Garden

The Pearls of Wisdom display

"Gardeners World"

These diamond shapes were no more than 2" long

this piece was just amazing!

Each square no more than a inch pieced together in shades

of brown, and if you looked at it from another direction it just

looked like a quilt in shades of brown.

There were loads of other stalls of different things too.

There will be another craft fair in Exeter in January I shall be there either

helping Janice or visiting with a friend.

That is the Craft4Crafters let me know if you will be able to visit.

I will try and meet up!

fair 28th to 30th January 2010